China News Agency, Jiangxi Jiujiang, August 23 (Liu Lixin) 9.49 meters, which is the water level of the iconic hydrological station of Poyang Lake, China's largest freshwater lake, at 8:00 on the 23rd.

Affected by the continuous high temperature and little rain, the water level of Poyang Lake continued to drop rapidly, and the drought in the lake area became increasingly serious.

The picture shows an aerial photo of Poyang Lake outside Lushan City, Jiangxi Province on August 22. A large area of ​​the lake bed has become a vast "prairie".

(UAV photo) Photo by China News Agency reporter Liu Lixin

　　"This number (9.49 meters) is 7.08 meters lower than the annual average (16.57 meters). The area of ​​the water body connected to the river in the lake area monitored at the same time is 560 square kilometers, about one-fifth of the normal year." Poyang Lake Hydrology and Water Resources Monitoring Center The fourth-level chief staff member Huang Xiao told reporters that since August, Poyang Lake has successively set the records of the earliest dry season (below 12 meters) and low dry season (below 10 meters), and the dry water situation in the Poyang Lake Basin has become increasingly serious and will continue.

　　"I grew up so much, and it was the first time I saw Poyang Lake dry up in August. It used to be full of water." Mr. Cha, a 65-year-old citizen of Lushan, Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province, said he has lived by Poyang Lake since he was a child. , he had never seen such a scene before.

　　Lushan City is located on the west bank of Poyang Lake, close to the main waterway of Poyang Lake.

In late August, the reporter came to Lushan City and saw that outside the Ziyang Embankment near the lake, the Falling Star Pier, a thousand-year-old stone island originally in the lake, was completely exposed, and a large area of ​​the surrounding lakebed became a vast "prairie".

The picture shows that on August 22, the land on a Linhuzhou beach in Lushan City, Jiangxi Province cracked.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Liu Lixin

　　The reporter went to Luoxingdun along the lakebed path walked by the local people, and saw that the land at the bottom of the lake was widely cracked, and puddles were scattered everywhere. On the beach, some dead fish and dead snails were scattered.

　　The Poyang Lake Plain, where Lushan City is located, is one of the important commercial grain production bases in Jiangxi Province.

　　"I have planted more than 300 mu of rice this year. Due to the drought, the production has been partially reduced. If the drought continues, there will be no harvest of more than 100 mu." Zhang Wenlie, a villager in Taolin Village, Hualin Town, Lushan City, said bluntly that this is his farming. The most difficult year in more than 30 years.

　　Zhang Wenlie said that in order to "quench his thirst" in the rice fields, he bought some pumps and searched for water points to pump water.

The picture shows that on August 21, several citizens were admiring the scenery on the Ziyang Embankment near Poyang Lake in Lushan City, Jiangxi Province.

Not far from the embankment, the falling star pier of the Millennium Stone Island is completely exposed, and a large area of ​​the surrounding lake bed has become a vast "prairie".

Photo by China News Agency reporter Liu Lixin

　　As of 16:30 on August 22, the drought disaster has caused 2.784 million people in 103 counties (cities, districts, including functional areas) of 11 districts and cities in Jiangxi Province to be affected, and the affected area of ​​crops is 330.6 thousand hectares. Direct economic losses 2.41 billion yuan.

　　In view of the current drought situation, the Jiangxi Provincial Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters has launched a level IV emergency response to drought at 16:00 on August 16.

It is expected that in the next 10 days, the meteorological drought in Jiangxi will continue, the water level of Poyang Lake will show a downward trend, and the drought will further develop.

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